Cordwood

Cordwood Porch added to a straw bale house in Poland.

Straw bale, Cob, Earthbag, Cordwood, Workshop Courses for 2008

60 km from Warsaw in Poland

16-18 May – A Hogan building workshop.

23 – 25 May. - Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop. Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering and painting with lime.

4 – 5 June - Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop. Building earthbag foundations for a straw bale structure.

6 – 8 June – Building with Straw bales. Building a straw bale structure

11-13 June- Earth plastering, sculpting, making and applying clay paints and straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay)

By Lake ‘Hancza’ North-Easterly corner of Poland

11-13 July - building with Cob, wattle & daub, adobe, clay plastering and sculpting, straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay). Building thin internal walls and partitions ( can be as thin as 1cm) using straw, clay and other fibres.

14, 15 July – cordwood and rammed earth building workshop.

18-20 July - Building with Earthbags / sandbags workshop. Learning about earth bag foundations, domes and arches, clay plastering and painting with lime.

22-24 July- Building with Straw bales. Building a straw bale structure

26-28 July – Earth plastering, sculpting, making and applying clay paints and straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay).

1-3 August - survival workshop: building a shelter, eating wild plants, cleaning, washing, preparing food and some medicines.

9, 10 August - building a sweat lodge workshop and a labyrinth celebration.

60 km from Warsaw in Poland

5-7 September- survival workshop: building a shelter, eating wild plants, cleaning, washing, preparing food and some medicines.

12-14 September – cordwood building, clay plastering and making a green roof.

4,5 October - survival workshop: building a shelter, eating wild plants, cleaning, washing, preparing food and some medicines.

6-8 October – an overview of Natural building technologies such as: straw bale building, cordwood and earthbag building

10-12 October – cob, wattle and daub, earth plastering, sculpting, straw/clay as insulation for new or existing buildings (learning how to insulate your existing house or barn using just straw and clay)

Workshops cost:

100 Euros for a 3-day workshop

70 Euros per 2-day workshop